[Sugar-devel] Summer of Code

[Simon Schampijer]

Mel Chua wrote:
> Thanks, Marco! This email is to both marketing and sugar-devel, to mark 
> the transition of the Sugar Labs Summer of Code effort from a marketing 
> project to a devel one. Future message on SoC will go to sugar-devel. 
> I've edited http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam#Project_Ideas and 
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code to reflect this and link to each 
> other.
> 
> For those interested: we're still in the very early stages, so this is a 
> back-burner project (not high-priority at all right now), but if anyone 
> has ideas for SoC-type projects or offers to help organize, see 
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code and leave your project ideas at 
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas.
> 
> It will be quiet on this for a while. I'll reping people about this 
> briefly at FUDCon next month; activity will step up for SoC around 
> mid-Feb when mentor organization applications open at Google. We'll 
> begin to look for mentors and students at that time as well. Regardless 
> of our eventual SoC funding status with Google, SL should be running 
> this kind of mentorship/medium-scale-project effort (and I've committed 
> to making sure of that), so any work that goes into this *will* be used 
> during summer '09.
> 
> --Mel

Congrats for that effort - this is a great idea! I have been mentoring 
already a person for GSoC 2008 and am happy to take another person again 
for next year (this reminds me that the fruits are still not in a build...)

Cheers,
    Simon


> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello Mel,
>  >
>  > sure! That sounds good. Happy to see that you are taking the
>  > initiative on this one, I wanted to mention it a couple of times and
>  > then I forgot. I will happy to mentor, I'm sure Tomeu and Simon will
>  > be too and we can probably find a few more mentors in the community.
>  > I'll add projects to the page you created as I think of them. Should
>  > we post on sugar-devel about it so that more people start thinking
>  > about interesting projects? If you need help on anything else from
>  > developers please let me know!
>  >
>  > Marco
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>>> Greg and I had a good talk today, and wound up with
>>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code - please check 'er out.
>>>
>>> The nutshell plan is that we're in "generate ideas and wait" mode until
>>> January, where we'll try to get consensus on project priorities during the
>>> SL portion of FUDCon; since applications to be a mentor org for SoC usually
>>> don't open until late Feb/early March, we mostly have to wait. I've put a
>>> reminder on my calendar for Jan. 9 to take a look at this again.
>>>
>>> We also agreed this project was something that should be the domain of the
>>> Development team - Marco, would this be ok? We'd come back and ask the
>>> Marketing team for help promoting stuff when the time comes, of course. :)
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